Google Blog Search Indexing Behaviour

[peter_d]

Interesting find....

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-09-n40.html

It’s pretty obvious that Google Blog Search doesn’t just index blogs based on their feeds; it also quite clearly uses link text from other feeds (or perhaps just other web pages) probably in a similar way to their web search.

[NothingButNet]

Originally Posted by peter_d

Interesting find....

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-09-n40.html

I find this interesting:

Will Google Blog Search try to ignore paid links?

It looks to me like they do. I have a few friends using PPP and one of them has got her blog banned because of this. I mean... there cannot be other reasons. Her blog has only unique content, it also has links from other blogs and some good PR sites, but... What do you think?

[peter_d]

Define "paid". Money changing hands? Favor exchanged? Partnership? Quid-pro-quo?

There's no way Google can tell if an individual link is paid. What they can do is look for unnatural linking patterns, which they do already. Too many same text links, too fast, is likely to raise a flag.

I have a few friends using PPP and one of them has got her blog banned because of this

How do you know this was the reason?

[sniperhiga]

Nice found. thank you.